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Batar Da'an

Name: Batar Da'an
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Timor-Leste
Ingredients: 2 Corn; 200g Pumpkin; 150g (cooked) Red kidney beans; 1/2 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; 600ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Corn, pumpkin, and beans simmered together — home cooking from East Timor's mountain villages.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Batar da'an means 'boiled corn' in Tetum, a dish eaten daily in East Timor's mountainous regions. Corn is simmered with pumpkin and kidney or mung beans and flavored with garlic and onion. It has long been treasured as a staple when rice is hard to come by.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a mountain village in East Timor, corn stew with pumpkin and beans is ladled from a pot in a kitchen beside the cornfield.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn 2
Pumpkin 200g
Red kidney beans 150g (cooked)
Onion 1/2
Garlic 2 cloves
Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 600ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the kernels off the corn with a knife.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the corn and water and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the diced pumpkin and kidney beans and simmer 20 minutes until tender.
Season with salt and finish with a little liquid remaining.

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